PCI Webinar with Meridith Elliott Powell Leadership Redefined: Ownership Engagement Results Competency: Organizational Leadership Sub-Category: Uses an inclusive, open and transparent approach to leading others Competitive, challenging and constantly shifting – that is today’s marketplace! It calls for a new style of leader. One that has the ability to see the big picture. Understand external [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Andrew Sanderbeck The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – A Refresher Competency: Personal/Interpersonal Skills Sub-Category: Learning and Innovation The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, first published in 1989, is a business and self-help book written by Stephen Covey. Dr. Covey presents an approach to being effective in attaining goals by aligning oneself to what he calls “true [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Cari Dubiel 20 Management Tips in 60 Minutes Competency: Library Management Competencies Sub-Category: Leads and empowers employees to deliver effective, high-quality library service Managers are often overworked and underwhelmed. Especially if you’re in middle management, it can feel like everyone needs something from you. Fortunately, you can learn from some of the [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Mitchell Friedman Dealing with Passive Aggressive Behaviors Competency: Library Management Competencies Sub-Category: Staff Training and Development Have you ever worked with someone who, on the one hand, seems agreeable and easy to get along with? Who, on the other hand, indirectly resists others’ demands and avoids direct confrontation at all costs? If [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Linda Bruno 20 Life Changing Words and How to Use Them in 60 Minutes Competency: Library Management Competencies Sub-Category: Staff Training and Development What is one thing most great leaders have in common? They are always finding new ways to be their best selves – personally and professionally. Sometimes that requires self-reflection [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Rachael Altman 20 Tools and Tips for Competitive/Market Intelligence Research in 60 Minutes Competency: Public Services Competencies Sub-Category: Reference Libraries are essential for supporting small businesses in their communities by providing programming, tools, and access to market research. Research databases and access to software help support small business owners, students, and entrepreneurs [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Jenna Cooley The Four Major Energy Blocks Leaders Encounter and Strategies to Overcome Them Competency: Library Management Competencies Sub-Category: Organizational Leadership As leaders, our mindset, or perspective, affects our feelings and drives our actions. This mindset can also be called “energy”. And, whether we realize it or not, people sense our energy. [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Kathy Dempsey 20 Marketing Resources in 60 Minutes Competency: Marketing and Public Relations Sub-Category: Understands and applies marketing theory and practice It’s easy to believe you have plenty of marketing information at your disposal—until you’re in the middle of a project and you run across a need you didn’t anticipate. Would you [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Carrie Rogers-Whitehead Always Selling: Sales and Marketing Business Practices Everyone in the Library Can Use Competency: Library Management Competencies Sub-Category: Marketing and Public Relations In our libraries, all of us are salespeople every day. You sell the latest book, or programs that week and that month to the patrons. You tell them [...]Read Full Article →

PCI Webinar with Jenna Cooley The Seven Roles We Play as Leaders of Our Lives and Others: An Introduction to Energy Leadership Competency: Library Management Competencies Sub-Category: Organizational Leadership Leading others can sometimes be stressful, challenging and even chaotic. And it can be easy to allow a negative mindset to prevail in our careers and [...]Read Full Article →